Might as well post this here; just as you think Truibin™ can't get any worse:
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?658738-Pay-to-win-Continued-Efforts-or-new-Gorgoroth-Lootboxes-loot&p=7776678#post7776678
Get your raid gear before the raid goes live by purchasing hundreds of dollars "worth of" lootbox keys from Lotro™ Store™!

It might have something to do with the fact that Amorey/Tahitoa was the head moderator for Age of Conan (AoC) EU forums when the aforementioned game launched. Back in 2007-2008 AoC was one of the most hyped MMOs, about 850000 copies were pre-ordered. Needless to say, the launch was a flaming trainwreck with countless advertised features completly missing from the game, myriad of gamebreaking bugs, utter lack of content (there weren't enough quests for reaching the max level), non existent balance, etc. Updates to the game usually made things even worse by introducing even more bugs and shitty development choices. Naturally, the combination of angry customers who felt betrayed and fanbois on brewed a real shitstorm maelstrom on the forums. As a concequence of these events, Amorey/Tahitoa might have a strong misguided sense of solidarity Turbine™/Standing Stones Games™.
Pic related: This post gives me the excuse to post this artist's illustration of one the best/funniest bugs found in AoC (perhaps one of the best bugs in MMOs ever).

I have no idea how these new human avatars got through QA. On top of completly ruining the original character appearance, new avatars suffer from severe clipping:
As added bonus, now all human male characters look the same:
This is just pathetic, I've seen modders produce higher quality models with next to no clipping.

Surprise, surprise, Mördör™ has been delayed indefinitely due to critical gamebreaking bugs. Truibin™ implies they managed to completly break older content in the game.
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?656472-Mordor-Launch-Date-Shift

Managed to get inside Carn Dum without entering the instance itself:
There were no mobs or bosses in the overworld part of Carn Dum except at the gate:
In the sewer/dungeons there were mobs but the bosses could not be activated:
The castle itself could not be accessed.
We tried to get inside Urugarth but only managed to get under some structure:

I had to try this myself:
Coldbear was not in the same dimension:
There were some level 50 elite-master orcs, who could be killed for silver:
This place had some problems with culling:
Helegrod giant wing, no mobs:
For some reason headbutt was disabled here:
High Pass: